{Chapter 2 - Rising Clunk}
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Eat, Eat. The cell could not process hunger, or anything for that matter. Its body, however tells it what to do. Its body cant comprehend anything other then just that, Eat.
It floa- no. It sways around with the water. Anything that it touches is absorbed. Until it lands on ... something. It cant comprehend what. Just that this thing, you can eat.
Eat, Eat Ea-.
It ate its fill, but what now?
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The cell grew ... More.
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The lone cell reliant on the waves to bump into food, Became a bunch of cells, 16 to be exact. It went from a floating cell to a flailing bunch of cells. With more area to cover it can eat more food, faster. The drive to eat and consume however, will only grow. Along with its body as thousands of small mutations happen to it every second. most of them barely make a change then die out, but some especially helpful ones stick.
Eat, Eat, Eat.
it floats around to consume tiny specks of edible gunk and landing on the occasional food source such as a dead organism.
Until it bumped into something, it did the only thing it knew. EAT.
The bacteria it bumped into, a tiny thing much smaller then the hulking clunk of cells stung it.
It didn't know what, all it knew was that it should not go into the thing that's killing it.
It turns itself, Something its old self was incapable of doing. But the stings keep coming. Its being attacked. Bad, Bad, Bad. Luckily the tide is in its favor. With the water sweeping it away from the thing that's killing it ... Along with the thing that's killing it.
It shakes its body to move slightly faster, because that's a more efficient way to eat more and faster. It doesn't know why but something is guiding it. The stings become less and less frequent until it escapes from its enemy.
Eat.
It swings its body around some more until it finds a nice meal. Its body adapts to its needs, it needs to move faster. The mana inside of it rejuvenated by the food expanded its body exponentially along with something to help it move faster, A flagellum. It grew a bit every time it ate but now its incomparable. The fin like flagellum started as a small nub. like any of its small mutations that died out. Until its mana recognized the need for speed and helped that mutation
A worm the size of a krill with a thin fin like flagellum at the end with a small mouth to eat. The organism has grown from a cell to a complex organism with basic gills and a stomach-type organ to efficiently gain more nutrients.
The thousands of constant mutations and the constant growth of its body. makes it hunger. It can only tell what to eat by vibrations. Its usual meals, however are too small to sense. Its starving. And the 2 small patch of light sensitive cells near its mouth are not helping too much.